Founding Engineer

Posted 11 days 7 hours ago by Opus Recruitment Solutions

Permanent
Not Specified
Other
London, United Kingdom
Job Description

Founding Engineer

Location: Hybrid (2-3 days/week in London office)


I am representing a fast-moving, mission-driven start up building an AI-powered clinical knowledge platform.


What You'll Do:

  • Build and scale backend services (Python/FastAPI) for ingesting, indexing, and serving medical content.
  • Develop retrieval infrastructure using vector databases (e.g. PGVector, Pinecone).
  • Deploy on GCP (Cloud Run, Vertex AI) with Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tools.
  • Collaborate across product, mobile, and clinical teams to ship weekly.
  • Ensure secure, compliant data handling


What you need:

  • 5+ years backend experience (Python preferred).
  • Strong background in ML, search, or recommender systems.
  • Skilled in vector search, embeddings, and LLM-based RAG.
  • Hands-on with cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS/Azure).
  • Comfortable in early-stage, fast-paced environments.